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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by cmdli on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:49PM (#34089939)
> The primary structural issue is that low-income wages have completely stagnated if not fallen with the inflation over the last several decades while wages for mid-upper to ultrawealthy have gone up, dramatically.

This is statistically untrue, though a very popular misconception. Median wages have increased slightly after adjusting for inflation over the past few decades [1]. Minimum wage has wavered a bit since then, but most people are not employed at the federal minimum wage [2].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N [2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0203127200A

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by lotsofpulp on Thursday December 22, 2022 @12:34AM (#34090186)
Median does not capture adjustments at the bottom 2 quintiles, which is where hotel room cleaners probably are:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXU900000LB0102M

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXU900000LB0103M

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXU900000LB0104M

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